The Vector Brush Toolbox

ATTENTION ILLUSTRATOR FANATICS:  New Illustrator brush pack includes every brush you'll ever need for vector-based drawing The Illustrator's Brush Kit for Adobe Illustrator is a collection of 6 of our best-selling Illustrator brush packs. Each one of these packs has become a best-seller. Here's what you'll get: VectorFuzz ($15 retail value) 32 sponge and ink scatter brushes that make it easy to recreate the textures of mid-century children's books. VectorHero ($15 retail value) 40 ink pen brushes that make it easy to achieve the same kinds of strokes illustrators used in mid-century commercial illustration work. VectorSketch ($15 retail value) 40 pencil and charcoal brushes achieve the impossible, getting realistic pencil strokes in Illustrator! VectorTone ($15 retail value) 35 halftone and line textures created from a $200 '50s army surplus catalog. Easy to use. Just grab the blob brush and paint halftones and lines like magic! DryGoods ($15 retail value) 23 chalk brushes inspired by chalkboard art and sandwich board signs from the '30s. InkWash ($15 retail value) 30 ink and water brushes make it easy to add a wash of color and shading to your work with the swipe of your mouse. Why have each one of these packs become a best-seller? Here's the secret... Each pack was made from real source material and references historical commercial illustration work. So what exactly does that mean? Here's the breakdown. REAL SOURCE MATERIAL Whenever possible we sample the brushes from mid-century catalogs, advertisements, posters and other material. We acquire this material from places like Ebay, antique stores, estate sales and swap Of course we combine and tweak each piece of the product so it's not an exact replica out of respect for these great commercial artists of the REFERENCING HISTORICAL DESIGN WORK When we make our brushes we pay close attention to how the brush looked For example, when we created the VectorTone pack we paid close attention to the ratio between the dots, the shape of the dots after soaking into the paper, and how often flaws occurred. Yeah, sometimes we get a little obsessive compulsive on the details. But it's who we are! WE MAKE STUFF BY HAND TOO (OF COURSE) Sometimes the best way to recreate these old effects is to recreate them. In many cases we actually purchase material and then recreate retro work and then sample the work we created. For example, InkWash is a throwback to the ink washes that illustrators used to add shading to their work. For this pack we looked at the original uses of ink washes in ads and articles from old science Then we purchased india ink, brushes and heavy illustration paper. By tweaking our ink and water proportions, brush strokes and how loaded the brush was we created hundreds of Finally, we picked the best samples to convert into Get 9 FREE RetroSupply products instantly including fonts, brushes, textures and more when you sign up for the RetroSupply Co. newsletter: